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Building a directed evolution–genome editing pipeline for metabolic traits in specialty crop breeding
Anuran K. Gayen
1,3 , Laura M. Carmona Rojas
1,3 , Zhen Fan
2 and Seonghee Lee
2 , Vance M. Whitaker
2 ,
, Andrew D. Hanson,
1,4
1Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0690, USA
2Horticultural Sciences Department, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Wimauma, FL 33598-6101, USA
3These authors contributed equally and share first authorship
4Deceased
*Corresponding author. E-mail: vwhitaker@ufl.edu
Horticulture Research 12,
Article number: uhaf203 (2025)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/hr/uhaf203
Views: 524
Received: 02 Apr 2025
Accepted: 22 Jul 2025
Published online: 25 Oct 2025
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